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Ever since the earthquake of 1972 all but razed Managua -- and the dictator Anastasio Somoza and his cronies pocketed the millions in international reconstruction aid -- the Nicaraguan capital has been a city where communal memory has replaced actual...

A lower court judge shelved sexual abuse complaints against former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra today, saying the Sandinista leader has immunity from prosecution as a congressman. Judge Martha Quezada said the case was stalled ''until a...

The stepdaughter of former President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, head of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, filed charges of sexual abuse against him today, saying that he had repeatedly assaulted her for 20 years. The stepdaughter,...

May 28, 1998, Thursday

Twenty years ago, Daniel Ortega Saavedra was already an international icon of the left, leading the Sandinista revolution that brought him to power in 1979. At the same time, Mr. Ortega's stepdaughter says now, he began sexually abusing her, then 11,...

The six-bedroom house, the spacious grounds on which it sits and the art collection inside are valued at well over $1 million and take up an entire square block here on the outskirts of downtown. But that is not really why the dispute over the home's...

March 2, 1997, Sunday

The Sandinista leader, Daniel Ortega Saavedra, said today that he would vacate a house in the capital confiscated during the leftist revolution that he led. The decision removes a major roadblock to the reconciliation of the nation's dominant...

January 19, 1997, Sunday

Running as a revolutionary in 1990, with all the levers of state power at his disposal as the incumbent, Daniel Ortega Saavedra of the Sandinista National Liberation Front obtained 41 percent of the vote in presidential elections here. This week,...

Decisively rejecting a bid by the former guerrilla fighters of the Sandinista National Liberation Front to return to power through the ballot box, Nicaraguan voters have instead turned further to the right, electing a candidate who advocates...